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the radar screen pattern to determine the area the storm will probably travel over, he said.
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"The velocity of a tornado funnel is very great," Prof. Bates said. "Estimates range from an official maximum of 300 miles per hour to an unofficial 500 m.p.h. Typically, the storm itself will travel at better than 45 m.p.h.
"We do not know exactly what causes a tornado but there are about 14 current theories. By continued research tornado experts will eliminate them until they arrive at a satisfactory answer."
"The funnel's rotation is predominantly cyclonic; that is counter clockwise. That is why a tornado is sometimes called a cyclone.
Some of the theories have been that the storms originate from atmospheric electricity, or that they occur at the center of a cloud with very low atmospheric pressure. The former theory has recently been renewed. Prof. Bates said.
Another theory suggests the storm is caused by a roll cloud, which turns over and comes to the surface. A recent theory offers that it is caused by a column of air produced by a hail column down the cloud's middle.
Prof. Bates subscribes to the theory that tornadoes are caused by the action of the substance of a very wet cloud layer.
A tornado can have more than one funnel. "We think the funnel is an appendage of a parent structure," he said. "A tornado about five years ago in Scottsbluff, Neb., had 12 funnels. The May 1957 Dallas tornado had two that touched down to the ground."
"Where tornadoes touch down, damage is almost total," he noted, adding that damage is often equivalent to the amount of time the funnel touches down, but that there is destruction on the ground even if the funnel does not touch down.
Prof. Bates showed slides of tornadoes last year in Russell and Otis, Kan, which he and his associates tracked in an airplane. He also showed a 15-minute film of the Dallas tornado in action.
The Dallas tornado lasted about 25 minutes, and that is considered long, he said.
"Thank God they're small storms," he said. "If they were 50 miles wide there wouldn't be anyone living in this area."
Fraser Green Room Stirs Up Memories
Theatrical performers who played in Fraser Theater before Murphy Hall was built remember the Green Room as they fondly remember the "good old days."
In the tradition of the theatrical world that every productive theater should have a Green Room, a queer little alcove in the attic of Fraser Hall was converted into such a room for the KU drama participants.
THE ALCOVE, which was appropriately painted green, served as a general lounging room for actors where they could relax and learn their lines.
Theater curios such as pictures, swords, shields and scenic odds and ends created a unique museum. The collection of scenery, costumes, and props were the remains of scores of plays given in Fraser Theater.
AROUND 1950, the German department moved in to share the Green Room. While costumes still hung in one corner, sound booths were erected for the German classes. Some of the original stage equipment was transferred to Green Hall which was the first home of the experimental theater. For a time, Fraser and Green Halls shared the KU theatrical world.
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made tremendous strides in this area.
"If there had not been such strides and if there had not been such activity, I think this University and others would have cause for alarm and reason for action.
"The trend is apparent, and it has been a progressive one. For this the groups should be complimented.
"This University would hope to assist in the acceleration of this trend, not alone by counseling with the members of chapters on the campus, but by counseling with the national offices of the organizations as well.
"Too often, I think, when people talk about fraternities, they have in mind what went on 20,30,40 years ago. It has been quite popular to deride the fraternal system.
"What people choose to forget is that fraternal organizations, like most other activities, are constantly changing. In my opinion, they have changed for the better.
- "I BELIEVE IN the necessity on a university campus of there being a mature student government.
- "I choose to deal with the All Student Council's committee on these matters because I think the duly constituted authority of the student body should be recognized.
- "I BELIEVE THAT the greatest teaching is accomplished by
precept and the greatest advances made in the same way.
"At the Brotherhood Banquet in Lawrence this year a statement was made by the speaker, quoting another: 'One example is worth a thousand statements.'
"There is an important corollary to the Golden Rule which in my words would be this: 'Do thou as you would have others do.'"
"As has been stated in a Daily Kansas editorial, the matter of discrimination is a social problem.
"This problem can be solved by students who are willing to set examples for others, and the answer to this social problem will be reached more effectively and more permanently by students individually and collectively setting the precepts in their daily lives by their example.
"No University dictum and no administration fiat can possibly accomplish what the students themselves can do if sincerely they mean to do it."
Traffic Officers Reduce
CHICAGO — (UPI) — In an effort to help reduce the "size" of the police force the weights of 200 traffic officers will be posted in their squad room.
Health Club Refused License
BOSTON — (UPI) — The Massachusetts State Senate yesterday killed a House-passed bill to grant a liquor license to a health club.
Western Aircraft Harassed In East German Air Lanes
BERLIN — (UPI) — Western officials today reported new Soviet harassment of Western aircraft in the air lanes over East Germany to West Berlin.
The officials gave no details of the harassment because of a news blackout ordered on the Soviet tactics, but the Russians were believed to be scheduling flights in the corridors at the times and altitudes Allied planes were scheduled to fly.
Western officials expressed fear the new Soviet harassment tactics could lead to incidents in the three 20-mile-wide air corridors which link West Berlin, located 110 miles inside Communist territory, with the West.
They said the Russians kept their tactics within legal limits by announcing their flight plans at the
air safety center as they are supposed to. But the Soviets were said to be coinciding their flight plans deliberately with those of Western aircraft.
Informed sources said also that West Berlin's Tempelhof Airfield has had sporadic trouble reaching aircraft in the air corridors on some frequencies of ground-to-air communications. Whether this was due to Soviet jamming was not immediately known. The Russians on Saturday tried to jam the Western radar which guides aircraft into West Berlin through the corridors.
SNEA To Meet Wednesday
The KU Student National Education Association will meet at 4 p.m. Wednesday in 303 Bailey Hall.
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